EXCLUSIVE: The disappearance of Libyan opposition leader Mansur Rashid Kikhia in 1993 was one of the mysteries of Muammar Qaddafi’s 40-year bloody rule of Libya , which was only partially solved after the dictator was deposed in 2011.

Kikhia’s daughter, U.S. filmmaker Jihan K, revisits the story and her mother, Syrian artist Baha Al Omary’s battle to uncover the truth in documentary My Father and Qaddafi , which premieres Out of Competition in Venice on Friday.

Deadline can reveal a first clip for the film mixing family home videos, archival footage and contemporary interviews piecing together what happened to her father and his beloved country of Libya.

The work also follows the efforts of the filmmaker – who was only six-years-old when her father disappeared, and raised betwe

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